For those with MAJOR weight loss

Tip for people who have lost a sizable amount weight, There is a good chance that your medication needs to be adjusted to your new weight. The dosage for mt Staten's has been cut in half because of my food intake.On my last 2 visits to the doctor my blood pressure was low 100/60. So he had me stop my blood pressure meds for 3 days and if it remained under 140/90 to totally discontinue the BP Meds. I no longer take that BP Med and my BP was 117/76 this morning. even with a upper respiratory that is hanging on. Getting better slowly .I have lost 60 pounds in the last three years. 1/6 of my body weight.

This is something i too have wondered about. I had my last child 17 years ago. I never did the post pregnancy exercieses because i was sick after the birth. Then i had keyhole surgery and was steralized and then then a few years later i had to have a Hysterectomy due to cancer cells and this was done by abdominal surgery with a scar accross the top of my pubic area. I now am completely numb where the scar is and was told that they had to cut through the muscles to get to the womb. As they have been cut would they heal again enough to pull back in, i would love a flat tummy but i know that will never happen for me now. Its very depressing when i look down and see that flop of skin. If i could afford it i would pay to have it removed but that will never happen too.

I still do not have a flat tummy but hoping to.

I need to lose anywhere from 60-90 pounds. However, I am worried that there is no hope for my stomach. After having kids, my stomach hangs so bad. Will it lift and flatten once I lose the weight, or will it hang forever? If you have any success pictures it would be greatly appreciated!

I have 6 boys 3 of which I gave birth to. My youngest is almost 11 months old. You can flatten things out a lot just by losing the extra weight. There is still loose skin but its flat enough shorts and bikini top, and I can live with that I went from 218 to 120. The littlest one was born at the end of Jan and this is me at the beginning of Oct.

Before 218



After 120

Love this, you look beautiful

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I haven't had a flat stomach since high school. I eventually got a pouch and don't think it ever went away even after I lost some weight with my first weight gain..

I am expecting some loose skin...hopefully in time it will all go away if I keep the weights... I heard about those shapers..I might invest in one.

This is something i too have wondered about. I had my last child 17 years ago. I never did the post pregnancy exercieses because i was sick after the birth. Then i had keyhole surgery and was steralized and then then a few years later i had to have a Hysterectomy due to cancer cells and this was done by abdominal surgery with a scar accross the top of my pubic area. I now am completely numb where the scar is and was told that they had to cut through the muscles to get to the womb. As they have been cut would they heal again enough to pull back in, i would love a flat tummy but i know that will never happen for me now. Its very depressing when i look down and see that flop of skin. If i could afford it i would pay to have it removed but that will never happen too.

This sounds like a bit like me, but some back problems that led me to an awesome physiotherapist who gave me some excellent exercises has made a difference. I'm still at least 30 lb away from goal, but the pouch has reduced considerably. It'll never go away completely, but I'm 56 years old and okay with that.
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/580691-nsv-free-tummy-tuck
Now I'm really working on walking with my abs pulled in...harder than it sounds.

I lost 22 kilos or 50 pounds and before I thought I would never have an abs but I was able to achieve it at 19% body fat. We all know that in order to have a flat stomach, you have to lower your overall body fat percentage and to do that is to eat in calorie deficit. But achieveing it isn't that simple. You don't just have to work on losing body fat but you have to improve your overall body composition, meaning your muscle to fat ratio, since muscle is a metabolically active tissue that needs calories just to live and thus helps a lot in burning fat. In other words, work on losing body fat while minimizing muscle loss that also comes from eating at a deficit. We naturally lose both muscle and fat when in calorie deficit but we can do something about keeping our muscles while in calorie deficit.

In my case, weight lifting plus eating high protein foods helped me a lot in losing fat while minimizing muscle loss thus achieveing abs.

Before: 2009 at 75kg (170 lbs.), 5'2"


After: Dec. 2012 at 56kg (124 lbs.) - note: From my weight of 52kg (115 lbs.) that I had last February, I went to gain 10 lbs. on purpose but those are all muscle and in fact I dropped one jean size.